Over the past thirty years, the Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP) has partnered with government and community partners to build young worker health and safety education. Today, because of these efforts, all high school students in California receive mandated education about their labor rights, how to protect themselves on the job, and about the role of the labor movement in winning protections and benefits.
1994
CAL/OSHA allocates funding to LOHP to conduct exploratory research about young workers and their experience of health and safety in workplaces.
1997
California establishes the California Partnership for Young Worker Health & Safety through AB 1599 to solidify/create a working group of stakeholders statewide to improve rates of workplace injuries among young workers.
2000
The State of California establishes Safe Jobs for Youth Month, encouraging California’s communities to work together to reduce teen workplace injuries.
2004
LOHP works in collaboration with partners to create Talking Safety, Youth@Work, adopted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
2005
LOHP and UCLA-LOSH create and host the first Young Workers Leadership Academy. Since then, the partnership has trained over 600 young leaders to apply their knowledge of workplace rights within their communities.
2010
NIOSH adapts the Youth@Work—Talking Safety curriculum for use in all 50 states
2023
The state of California passes AB800 requiring high schools to observe workplace readiness week and provide information to students about their rights as workers.
